Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth

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  Vance Ginn

  Economist, former White House advisor, President of Pelican Institute

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  Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. [...] AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal depend...

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  Ilya Somin

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  Stock is private property, and seizing 50% of the stock value of major firms is a pretty obvious case of confiscation. [...] It does not matter that Sanders proposes to take "only" 50% of the stock, rather than 100%. If the government seizes half you...

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  María Pazos Morán

  Mathematician. Feminist activist and researcher. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales.

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  It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they ...

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  Dmytri Kleiner

  Venture Communist. Miscommunications Technologist. Telekommunisten Polemicist. ThoughtWorks Analyst.

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  UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capa...

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  Neil Wilson

  Computer Science Consultant. Economics Blogger.

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  Basic Income attempts to pay people under what should probably be called the l’Oréal Principle (“because you’re worth it”). They want to be paid first and then perhaps do something later if they feel like it. That is a complete reversal of the princi...

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  Jorge Riechmann

  Poet, mathematician, philosopher, ecologist and political scientist.

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  Todas las versiones de la RB, tanto las de derecha como las de izquierda: presuponen la perpetuación del capitalismo (de un capitalismo superproductivo, de hecho); llevan a una sociedad dual, en una fase en la que necesitamos reconstruir la cohesión ...

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  Jean-Marie Harribey

  Economist. Conseil scientific d'Attac France. Economistes Aterrés. Fondation Copernic.

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  Would the payment of a basic income to the whole population foster the same macroeconomic mechanism (i.e. a demand-led stimulation)? Yes if such payments anticipate additional production. But, by definition, the unconditional basic income is isolated...

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  Mateo Alaluf

  Sociologist. Université libre de Bruxelles.

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  To replace a social security system primarily financed by contributions and based on wage solidarity with a rent paid by the Government and financed by tax income seems a war machine against the welfare state. In addition, an income provided uncondit...

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  Stuart White

  Political Scientist.University of Oxford.

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  To claim a share of such wealth without being willing to make this contribution is unfairly to free-ride on those citizens who do make the required contribution. If this unfairness is to be avoided, receipt of an equal share of the relevant types of ...

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